What is recorded here

Lios na Gal was a circular rath nearly forty-eight metres across, built with two concentric ramparts and an intervening ditch in level Galway pastureland. It has been levelled, leaving only a slight roughness beneath the grass, yet the buried shape still emerges in aerial photography. The lost underground passage may have let people walk into the earth while the sky turned, or perhaps it was never more than a story told beside the pasture.

In level pastureland. Described by Orpen (1916, 33-5) as a circular rath (diam. c. 48m) defined by ‘two concentric circular ramparts … with intervening ditch’. A ‘trace of a Man-made underground passage’ (GA096-125001-) lay within the interior. Cody (1989, 281-2, no. 107) noted that the monument had been levelled and, apart from a slight roughness in the ground surface, no visible surface trace of it or the Man-made underground passage survived. However, the outline of the rath is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photography. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 June 2019

Lios na Gal, Rathgorgin is a circular ringfort, likely dating to the early medieval period, characterized by two concentric earthen ramparts and an intervening ditch, with a reported trace of an underground passage. The name "Lios na Gal" suggests a possible association with fairy legend, as "lios" often refers to a fairy grove or fort in Irish tradition.

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